From the medical community

We welcome comments from PhDs, MDs, DVMs.. Your silence so far is deafening..

“..anesthesia is used with some nonsurgical procedures, too, such as to keep tots still during MRI scans – and Ross said that’s an area to try alternatives. For example, Duke has had parents or nurses crawl inside scanners to hold a child.

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We trust doctors to take care of us and our family. We trust them because they are better prepared than us. They save lives. Millions of lives. And we respect that.
We also know and accept that sometimes doctor loose patients, because Medicine is not all-powerful.

That is the reason why, when we read or hear that a child died on surgery and that the parents are blaming the physician, we tend to pity them for their loss and think they are just angry at the world and trying to find a culprit. And we don’t believe them. Because the doctor sure did all he could to save that child, right? We would listen to the parents version of the story, of course, but our mind is made up from the start, and they will have to convince us that we are wrong.

That’s what we do, because we trust doctors and they know better than parents.

Well, sadly this was not the case in Rowan’s death. He was killed because doctors wouldn’t listen to “concerned” parents who had taken the time to read scientific literature about risks of general anesthesia in Williams Syndrome’s patients. Had they listen, Rowan will probably be alive today (see “What could have been done” section on this web). Not only they didn’t listen then, aparently they are still using general anesthesia on WS patients today (See “The hospital hasn’t stopped”).

If you are reading this lines, I don’t want you to believe me. I simply invite you to empty your mind of any prejudice it might have on this case, read the whole story and reach your own conclusions.

Rowan was killed at a renowned children’s hospital as a direct result of the careless and unnecessary use of general anesthesia for a “routine” outpatient diagnostic procedure .. against his mother’s wishes.

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